Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.

The standard clauses of the American dream only included two weeks of vacation a year.

Old folks have dreams and ambitions too, like everybody else. Don't sit on a couch someplace.

Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.

When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

No soul willfully does wrong.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.